[PDFlist] World Federation of the Deafblind launches initial Global Report! [1 Attachment]

[Soloveni Vitoso]

The World Federation of the Deafblind has launched the initial global report on the situation and rights of persons with deafblindness.

Read more and download the report here<http://www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org/wfdb-global-report>! Report is also attached.

Representing between 0.2% to 2% of the population, persons with deafblindness are a very diverse yet hidden group and are, overall, more likely to be poor and unemployed, and with lower educational outcomes. Because deafblindness is less well-known and often misunderstood, people struggle to obtain the right support, and are often excluded from both development and disability programmes.

This initial global report on the situation of persons with deafblindness seeks to start a dialogue between international disability rights and development stakeholders, and is based on research undertaken by the World Federation of the Deafblind (WFDB) combining the largest population-based analysis of persons with deafblindness conducted to date (disaggregation of 22 population-based surveys from low, middle and high-income countries), an academic literature review, two surveys conducted among members and partners of WFDB and Sense International<https://www.senseinternational.org.uk/>.

Women and men with deafblindness from across the world took part in the Helen Keller World Conference in June 2018<http://www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org/node/1979>, and were consulted to confirm the findings and elaborate on the recommendations for this report.

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The International Disability Alliance

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